In this paper, we explore the concept of dual–purpose speech: speech that is socially appropriate in the context of a human– to–human conversation which also provides meanin...
Kent Lyons, Christopher Skeels, Thad Starner, Corn...
This paper presents a distributed virtual reality environment for children called EVE— Environnements Virtuels pour Enfants. The virtual environment architecture is reactive age...
Jean-Pierre Gerval, Dorin Mircea Popovici, Jacques...
We present and implement an infrastructure for automating the negotiation of business contracts. Underlying our system is a declarative language for both (1) fully-specified, exe...
Daniel M. Reeves, Michael P. Wellman, Benjamin N. ...
This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
This paper proposes the concept of digital cities as a social information infrastructure for urban life (including shopping, business, transportation, education, welfare and so on)...